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title: After they had agreed on how to carry out their treachery they entic… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After they had agreed on how to carry out their treachery they enticed the prince to a den of lions and threw him down among them. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 53

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After they had agreed on how to carry out their treachery they enticed the prince to a den of lions and threw him down among them.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** agree, carry out, entice, throw down · **To what, where:** treachery, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:15:53
# text = After they had agreed on how to carry out their treachery they enticed the prince to a den of lions and threw him down among them.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	enticed	entice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · perfect | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | brothers's treachery |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treachery=Eventuality |
| 3 | **entice** | past | brothers *= brother* | the prince |  |  |  | to a den of lions *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent prince=Patient to den=Result |
| 4 | **throw down** | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | prince |  |  |  | among brothers *= brother* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme among they=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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